The FOMC statement reads very much like the June statement. There were some minor tweaks in the first paragraph that discusses the broad economic performance since the last FOMC statement. There was little change in the assessment...

In the global context, the technology companies that deal in Artificial intelligence (AI), automation, robotics, digitalization, etc. all have been in focus in past one decade. Most of the popular stocks, and perhaps also the top performing since...

In the pre-crisis era there was an economic orthodoxy that virtually every country followed. That order has broken down in the past decade and led to a series of economic experiments and now we're beginning to see the results.
The big...

Artificial intelligence (AI), automation, robotics, digitalization, etc all are amongst the most popular buzzwords these days. In fact this jargon started gaining currency immediately after the global financial crisis started in 2008. To...

Despite unusual movements in top heavyweights like ITC, Reliance Industries, Infosys and HDFC Bank, Nifty ended the week with marginal changes. Though the intra week range of Nifty (136pts) was much lower than previous week's range (267pts),...

"Though stock markets in general are meaningless and indicate nothing in terms of the health of the economy they still function as a form of hypnosis, or a kind of Pavlovian mechanism; a tool that central bankers can use to keep a population...

Days like Thursday make it tough to explain currency moves but also make the underlying market dynamics clear.The ECB didn't make any meaningful changes to its statement. References to the size and duration of QE programs were...

Today's ECB decision will be the five-year anniversary of Draghi's defining speech and it would be a perfect opportunity for him to write a new chapter “Within our mandate, the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro....

Relative to equities, commodities are trading cheapest in many decades. This divergence is there despite the fact that a large proportion of traders are betting on a global reflation trade since past six months at least.
The primary...

The latest OECD Economic Outlook forecast succinctly summarizes the "New Normal" in just one paragraph, as follows:
"The mood in the global economy has brightened during the last year. Confidence indicators, industrial production, headline...

The Gujarat ​HC ruled that ​RBI had the right to instruct banks on steps to be taken for resolution of stressed assets. And dismissed Essar Steel's plea against the central bank's decision to recommend bankruptcy proceedings. Essar Steel is...

The second factor is the cost of printing new notes to compensate for the banned 500- and 1,000-rupee notes. As per the central bank's latest annual report, it spent 34.2 bln rupees to print 21.2 bln pieces of notes worth 3.8 trln rupees in...

The unconventional monetary policies followed in past one decade have brought about a paradigm shift in global financial markets. The new conditions, popularly known as "New Normal", indicate that there is broader consensus on lower economic...

Every currency has a bad day at times. Even in the less-volatile era of 2017, currencies are beaten up. When those days come – like they did for the US dollar on Friday – how the currency recovers is often more telling then the bad day...

For several years now, the government could safely count on the transfer of a hefty surplus from the RBI for a slice of its revenue. And thanks to the surprise demonetisation of high-value currency notes in November, many had initially expected the...

For past two years, we have been anticipating the current bull market cycle that started from August 2013 to pause around 10300 Nifty spot level, correct materially before surging to eventual target of 13400.
Few weeks ago we lowered our...

Exactly a decade ago, during the second week of July 2007, S&P downgraded US$7.3 billion of securities sold in 2005 and 2006. A few weeks later, Moody’s Investor Service slashes ratings on 691 securities from 2006, originally worth US$19.4...

Our colleagues recently visited the flood affected areas of Assam. The misery of people there can't be described in words. Especially when it is a predictable and recurrent phenomenon. The apathy of administration and policy makers is...

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